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Semantic Web Company Newsletter August 28, 2009 EDITORIAL Bing gets semantic with Wolfram Alpha Dear subscriber! A week ago TechCrunch launched an article ending the rumour about a cooperation between the Microsoft search engine Bing and Wolfram Alpha. Although there are no details available yet it seems obvious that Bing will use data of Wolfram Alpha to implement a specific Q&A service. The deal fits well into the Bing strategy which is to develop tools and services that help to differentiate themselves from its biggest competitor Google. And after Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset in 2008, their increasing attempt to harvest structured data on the web and their close cooperation with Yahho! it seems that Bing is becoming a big player in the semantic search market. Who has ever expected that from MS?! With best regards, Your Semantic Web Company
VOICES Corinna Bath: "Every technology is socially and culturally shaped."
SWC UPDATE SWC offers webinars for quick-start in Semantic Web
SWC UPDATE Triplification Challenge 2009
MARKET SCAN Wordster—‘A Wikipedia For Words’—Gets Funding
MARKET SCAN NYT wedding announcements marry the semantic web
MARKET SCAN Bintro Adds Ontological Data from Freebase and Geonames, Offers Users Quicker and Easier Path to Finding Opportunity Matches
TECHNOLOGY SCAN W3C's New SKOS Standard Advances Linked Data
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Health IT standards panel advances SNOMED use
TECHNOLOGY SCAN It’s Semantic: Easier Solution To Annotate And Search Images
BLOG SCAN TwitterSense. It’s Coming.
BLOG SCAN Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic Web
BLOG SCAN Is intimate personal information a toxic asset in cloud datacenters?
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Semantic Knowledge Management: Integrating Ontology Management, Knowledge Discovery, and Human Language Technologies Semantic Web technologies like RDF, OWL and other W3C standards aim to extend the Web's capability through increased availability of machine-processable information. Davies, Grobelnik and Mladenic have grouped contributions from renowned researchers into four parts: technology; integration aspects of knowledge management; knowledge discovery and human language technologies; and case studies. Together, they offer a concise vision of semantic knowledge management, ranging from knowledge acquisition to ontology management to knowledge integration, and their applications in domains such as telecommunications, social networks and legal information processing.
Event Tip I-SEMANTICS: 5th Int. Conference on Semantic Systems Wednesday, 02. September - Friday, 04. September 2009, Graz/Austria From September 2 - 4, 2009 I-SEMANTICS will open its gates for scientific and application oriented afficionados in the domain of Semantic Web, Semantic Social Software and Linked Data.
Event Tip I-KNOW: 10th Int. Conference on Knowledge Technologies Wednesday, 02. September - Friday, 04. September 2009, Graz/Austria I-KNOW '09, which is co-located with I-SEMANTICS, brings together a continuously growing community of researchers and practitioneers in knowledge management and knowledge technologies. I-KNOW ‘09 offers a forum to share innovative ideas, to learn from each other and to jointly find promising ways ahead for the future. The topics of I-KNOW ‘09 will cover most relevant aspects of knowledge management and knowledge technologies.
Event Tip SEMAPRO 2009 - Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing Sunday, 11.- Friday, 16. October 2009, Sliema / Malta The inaugural International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing, SEMAPRO 2007, was initiated considering the complexity of understanding and processing information. Semantic processing considers contextual dependencies and adds to the individually acquired knowledge emergent properties and understanding..
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2009 | 5th International Conference on Sunday, 11.- Tuesday, 13. October 2009, Leipzig/Germany TMRA 2009 will be the fifth event in the annual series of international conferences on Topic Maps Research and Applications. TMRA is the advanced scientific and industrial forum whose main object is connecting the key players in the Topic Maps community. Here you will find researchers and users in government and industry, as well as the vendors, the luminaries, and the standards creators gathered for an exchange of ideas in a stimulating setting.
Event Tip SAMT 2009 | 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies Wednesday, 02. December 2009 to Friday, 04. December 2009, Graz/Austria The 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT '09) targets at narrowing the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap.
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Dr. Corinna Bath, researcher at the Humboldt-University Berlin,
investigates into gender-specific issues of the Semantic Web. The
central question is how to handle (and preserve) technologically
implemented social, cultural and economic inequalities in the development
of large scale technological infrastructures. From her perspective
a feminist design of a future web is a challenge on the levels of
knowledge production, technology design and use.
A new series of webinars helps newbies to get familiar with the
Semantic Web. The webinars offer basics and practical knowledge
about methologies, technologies and standards of the Semantic Web.
Within 90 minutes you acquire an overview over latest developments
and topics relevant for your business and areas like Content-Engineering,
Knowledge Management, Business-Intelligence, E-Business and more.
Each webinar is a stand-alone-module and can be booked singularly.
Attendance is limited to ten participants.
Wordster, an Atlanta startup that is set to soon launch what it
calls a ‘Wikipedia for words’ has raised $440,000 of
a $1.25 million round, according to an SEC filing. Southern tech
site TechDrawl profiled the startup in May and said that it would
work as a semantic reference service that could provide the correct
meaning of a word based on its context (TechDrawl‘s example:
In the phrase ‘decked with jewels,’ ‘deck’
has a specific meaning, but it’s unlikely to be found right
away if one looks up just the word ‘deck’ in a traditional
dictionary).
The weddings and celebrations section of The New York Times can
sometimes read like a Mad Lib: insert Ivy League degree here, mother’s
medical specialty there. Now, couples submitting their nuptials
to the Times can do so with an online form that will truly automate
the process. And while input fields and dialog boxes may kill some
of the romance, the new system actually has intriguing potential
for improving rote journalistic tasks.
Bintro, a semantic opportunity matchmaking service for individuals
and businesses, announced today its addition of ontology databases,
Freebase and Geonames. This addition allows Bintro to increase and
define new opportunity matching categories with more precise understanding
of geographic location. Bintro's internal research indicates that
approximately 98% of all 'Needs' -- meaning a user request for an
opportunity match -- fit within the new match categories. 
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today unveiled a new framework
designed to bridge the gap between classifications, subject headings
and taxonomies and so-called linked data. The idea is to create
broader and simpler data exchange and access to information as part
of the broader Semantic Web initiative. 
The J. David Gladstone Institutes said this week that is its partnering
with software firm Alitora Systems to develop a semantic search
system targeted at drug discovery. Under the terms of the collaboration,
Gladstone will modify Alitora Systems' semantic technology for biotechnology
and pharmaceutical discovery and development. Alitora's semantic
search technology finds information based on "relevant meaning,
not just keywords," which could help researchers uncover information
that might otherwise be lost, Gladstone said. 
Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to
organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will
soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially,
anyone trying to keep up with photo-happy Facebook or Flickr friends.
At this very moment, at a villa in the Israeli city of Hertzeliya
Pituach, the final preparations are being made for what can be best
described as ‘TwitterSense’—a way to automatically
filter your Twitter stream so that the most relevant Tweets come
out on top. The location in question is the home of my6sense, which
currently offers a powerful way to filter news feeds. It is applying
its filtering technology to Twitter and by the looks of it you’ll
soon be able to follow as many Twitter users as you want and still
never miss out on the most important tweets.
Government transparency in all its forms would appear to be very
much in vogue at present, spanning everything from the Obama administration’s
Data.gov portal and Prime Ministerial pronouncements in the UK Parliament
to municipal proclamations of openness in Vancouver and compelling
grass-roots demonstrations by activists and even newspapers.
Aggregators (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.) tend to believe
that personal information is a valuable asset for several reasons.
It is valuable to advertisers because it enables greater relevance
for their ads. It is valuable to users because it can be used to
enrich their lives. And it is valuable to aggregators because they
can use personal information to make more money by selling (anonymous?)
versions and by using it to bring together advertisers and customers.
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